Pennsylvania - A Pennsylvania hospital is hoping to mitigate a nursing shortage by creating a new in-house travel staffing agency.

UPMC has created UPMC Travel Staffing as a solution to the nationwide nursing shortage and to attract and keep highly skilled nurses and surgical techs.

The hospital says they're the first in the country to launch this type of program. They believe there is the potential to evolve to include additional jobs in the program outside of nurses and surgical technologists.

UPMC says their goal is to rely less on outside staff and instead use nurses already employed by UPMC to travel to network hospitals across the state.